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[CTRandall]

Inspired by a @Brian G Turner post on Tolkien's poetry and a casual comment about fictional book reviews by @tinkerdan Here is my first review of Books that Should Not Be. This week: what if H.P. Lovecraft had written Lord of the Rings?

 

[Biskit]

The snow that's been working so hard elsewhere has come to Cornwall for a holiday, lying around in great white heaps. It took me four hours to drive twenty miles. So I blogged a cat story just because.
Knee-trembler.

 

[CTRandall]

The second in the series of Books that Should Not Be.

This week, Albert Camus completes G.R.R.Martin's Game of Thrones series (because Martin never will). Don't ask me why the AI chose to do it in the style of a French existentialist/absurdist. I just report the stories, I don't make them up.

 

[thaddeus6th]

I forgot I scheduled this and it went up yesterday. Mm, professionalism. Anyway, a review of sci-fi 'history' Repulse: Thaddeus the Sixth: Review: Repulse, by Chris James

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I had a non-crisis of identity. So there's a first

On Identity - Jo Zebedee

 

[The Big Peat]

Spellslinger by Sebastien De Castell

Peat Long's Blog: Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell

 

[Juliana]

Spellslinger by Sebastien De Castell

Interesting review. I haven't read this one, but I did read his Traitor's Blade books and found them enjoyable, though he also had very long and very descriptive fight scenes in them.

 

[The Big Peat]

Interesting review. I haven't read this one, but I did read his Traitor's Blade books and found them enjoyable, though he also had very long and very descriptive fight scenes in them.

I couldn't get into that. Based on Spellslinger I kinda want to give them another go... but not quite enough to open it up right now.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I didn't enjoy Traitor's Blade and didn't finish reading it. I could forgive the reliance on plot convenience ("I was knocked unconscious and taken to the next setting the author wanted me in"), but when it came to the horse torture scene I had to put it down. It wasn't just the discomfort the scene intentionally invoked, but the sudden reveal that the main character had a deep spiritual connection to horses - something that had gone unmentioned in the first half of the book, and felt wholly contrived.

 

[The Big Peat]

The Not At All Late Peat's Top 10 Books Read Last Year

I didn't enjoy Traitor's Blade and didn't finish reading it. I could forgive the reliance on plot convenience ("I was knocked unconscious and taken to the next setting the author wanted me in"), but when it came to the horse torture scene I had to put it down. It wasn't just the discomfort the scene intentionally invoked, but the sudden reveal that the main character had a deep spiritual connection to horses - something that had gone unmentioned in the first half of the book, and felt wholly contrived.

Very bad writing indeed. And editing. I can get a writer forgetting to do that, but surely an editor should pick that shizzle up?

 

[night_wrtr]

Finding a Rhythm - The second draft, or how I continue to learn that there are no copy and past writing styles. Everyone is different and after letting myself discover my own method, writing is less of a chore, and a lot more fun.

 

[thaddeus6th]

A best of blog, from all the samples in Snapshots 2-5 I read (about two dozen). Some are really good, I'm planning on getting the Black Gate Chronicles right after I finish Oathbringer (which may be a while, but it's still a plan).

Anyway, good read for people after new fantasy: Thaddeus the Sixth: Snapshots – pick of the bunch

 

[CTRandall]

A review of one of the Chrons' own: Jo Zebedee's Waters and the Wild

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Kate Bush on creativity.

 

[Biskit]

Spring Frisk because Spring is starting and everything around the farm is getting frisky.

 

[Juliana]

Thoughts on Boskone, the con I attended this weekend...
Boskone 56 Round-up

 

[CTRandall]

A review of Danielle Steel's rewrite of Stephen King's It. Haven't heard of it? I'm surprised. The BBC is already filming a TV adaptation starring Kiera Knightly and Nickolai-Kingslayer from GoT (can't remember his last name).

Oh, and Derek Jacobi is playing "It".

 

[night_wrtr]

Spring Frisk because Spring is starting and everything around the farm is getting frisky.

Our hens are starting to laying something fierce right now. Went from 1 or 2 a day over winter to nearly 10. It will be egg gifting season soon.

 

[The Big Peat]

Dorian, Peralta and Masculinity - A half baked blog from three in the morning

 

[HareBrain]

Dorian, Peralta and Masculinity - A half baked blog from three in the morning

I dunno -- I stuck a skewer in it and it came out clean. Impressively coherent for that time of day. I didn't even need to have watched the shows to know what you were talking about.